#secret

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#fear #insects #me #more #more than anything

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. ↗

— Ben Okri

#failure #fewer #gestures #greater #higher

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#afraid #competitors #manufacturers #many #march

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#age #another #careers #double #life

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love. ↗

— Sadaharu Oh

#baseball #career #heart #initiation #into

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beautiful #beautiful things #because #best #despair

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#secret #something #told #whisper

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#end #evasion #good #good end #guilt

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#city #convinced #drama #everyone #feel